Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 136
Every one shouted out against that; but, says Jack, "You didn't hinder him when he took the same strips from the backs of my two brothers, and sent them home in that state, and penniless, to their poor mother."
Who acts: Jack, You · What happens: shout out, say, not hinder, take, send · To what, where: one, Jack, same strips, backs, brothers, state · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 one | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 shouted | compound:prt |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 shouted | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 says | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 but | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 one | parataxis |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hinder | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hinder | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hinder | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hinder | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hinder | advmod |
| 17 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hinder | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 took | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hinder | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 strips | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 strips | amod |
| 24 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 backs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 backs | det |
| 27 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 brothers | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 brothers | nummod |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 backs | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sent | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sent | cc |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | obj |
| 36 | home | home | ADV | _ | 34 sent | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 state | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 state | det |
| 39 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 penniless | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 penniless | cc |
| 42 | penniless | penniless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hinder | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 mother | punct |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 mother | case |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 mother | nmod:poss |
| 46 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 mother | amod |
| 47 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hinder | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout out speech: express | participle | every one not said here | against every one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not hinder in a quote | past · do-support | You | Jack | to brothers's poor mother | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | past | Jack | the same strips | the backs of my two brothers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent strip=Theme from back=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | send in a quote | past | Jack not said here | brothers = brother | that state | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in state=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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